Exhibition of the week

David ShrigleyOne of the most incisive, original, comic and humane artists around reveals his latest dark drolleries.•Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 18 March to 23 April.

Also showing

Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and TchaikovskyThe superb Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow has lent its portraits of geniuses and haunted souls to what should be a fascinating encounter with Tolstoy’s Russia. •National Portrait Gallery, London, 17 March to 26 June.

Elizabeth PriceThe excellent winner of the 2012 Turner prize brings her troubling feel for sound and vision to bear on Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who restored ancient Knossos.•Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 18 March to 15 May.

Imprint 93This show resurrects a project that sent works by Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed and other leaders of1990s British art through people’s letterboxes.•Whitechapel Gallery, London, 19 March to 25 September.

Hilma af KlintA groundbreaking exhibition of this Swedish pioneer of visionary abstract art who died in 1944.•Serpentine Gallery, London, until 15 May.

Masterpiece of the week

Portrait of a Man (c 1475-6) by Antonello da Messina Photograph: The National Gallery, London

Portrait of a Man (c 1475-6) by Antonello da MessinaHe looks back at you with big brown sensitive eyes from a face delicately modelled in oil paints. Emulating the north European artists whose works Antonello had studied, this haunting portrait puts this southern Italian artist in the Renaissance big league.•National Gallery, London.